About the Authors

Xiubo Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China

Lifang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China

Zhouping Shangguan

shangguan@ms.iswc.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XW LW ZS. Data curation: XW. Formal analysis: XW ZS. Funding acquisition: ZS. Investigation: XW LW. Methodology: XW ZS. Project administration: ZS. Resources: XW LW ZS. Software: XW. Supervision: ZS. Validation: ZS. Visualization: XW. Writing – original draft: XW LW ZS. Writing – review & editing: XW LW ZS.